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vlad321 on 31 March 2009
Acevil said:
I always find it funny, if the evil giant corporation strikes back it is considered evil and in bad taste, but if the annoying good corporation strikes first, it is good marketing...Also I am not talking about the comments in this thread....

 

Apple is far far FAR worse than Microsoft.

Macs are still worthless PoS stuck in between Windows and Linux.



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StarrGazer on 31 March 2009
CaptainDJ said:
XP > Vista
MAC > Microsoft

All my Bro did was dual booted his MAC with XP, and now I want one for myself! :O

If you like that.....you'd love seeing what you can do on a Mac with "Target Disk" Mode!   Any machine can be easily backed up,  migrated to another machine, or recovered.......imagine never having to reload your OS even after a disk crash and you start to get the idea.  

 



Acevil on 31 March 2009
vlad321 said:
Acevil said:
I always find it funny, if the evil giant corporation strikes back it is considered evil and in bad taste, but if the annoying good corporation strikes first, it is good marketing...Also I am not talking about the comments in this thread....

 

Apple is far far FAR worse than Microsoft.

Macs are still worthless PoS stuck in between Windows and Linux.

 

Hey I agree with ya, but the general audience doesn't seem to see it that way.



 

JamesCizuz on 31 March 2009
StarrGazer said:
CaptainDJ said:
XP > Vista
MAC > Microsoft

All my Bro did was dual booted his MAC with XP, and now I want one for myself! :O

If you like that.....you'd love seeing what you can do on a Mac with "Target Disk" Mode!   Any machine can be easily backed up,  migrated to another machine, or recovered.......imagine never having to reload your OS even after a disk crash and you start to get the idea.  

 

 

Target Disk also fails 6% of the way, and the standard for programs which perform that action is supposed to be BELOW 0.05%.

 

Also, there is no reason to buy a mac. Buy a PC, and dual boot XP and OSX. You can do that you know? It's not hard anymore, ISOs now exist which do it all for you. It runs good, except for some conflicts with some hardware, you wouldn't have to worry 95% of s-hardware is supported. Special hardware meaning things like wireless cards, and sound cards. Everything else would be supported.



nightsurge on 31 March 2009
lolita said:
I find this quite pathetic. Why does MS need to make those ads when they still have the biggest marketshare anyway? Are they starting to feel threatened or something?

They could simply ignore it and focus on making their OS better instead of spending all that money into making useless ads like this.

Wait wait wait wait..... you mean like.... Apple? HAHAHAHAHA!  Apple is the one that needs to be listening to your advice, mate.  I don't know how many ads they make that constantly jab at MS even when the ads are completely false and misleading.  At least this Windows ad is completely true.

 



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ssj12 on 31 March 2009
lolita said:
I find this quite pathetic. Why does MS need to make those ads when they still have the biggest marketshare anyway? Are they starting to feel threatened or something?

They could simply ignore it and focus on making their OS better instead of spending all that money into making useless ads like this.

 

They are losing market share to Linux and Mac.



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ssj12 on 31 March 2009
CaptainDJ said:
XP > Vista
MAC > Microsoft

All my Bro did was dual booted his MAC with XP, and now I want one for myself! :O

 

Windows 7 = XP > Vista

And

Linux distros > Mac > Windows

 



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famousringo on 31 March 2009
JamesCizuz said:
StarrGazer said:
CaptainDJ said:
XP > Vista
MAC > Microsoft

All my Bro did was dual booted his MAC with XP, and now I want one for myself! :O

If you like that.....you'd love seeing what you can do on a Mac with "Target Disk" Mode!   Any machine can be easily backed up,  migrated to another machine, or recovered.......imagine never having to reload your OS even after a disk crash and you start to get the idea.  

 

 

Target Disk also fails 6% of the way, and the standard for programs which perform that action is supposed to be BELOW 0.05%.

 

Also, there is no reason to buy a mac. Buy a PC, and dual boot XP and OSX. You can do that you know? It's not hard anymore, ISOs now exist which do it all for you. It runs good, except for some conflicts with some hardware, you wouldn't have to worry 95% of s-hardware is supported. Special hardware meaning things like wireless cards, and sound cards. Everything else would be supported.

I don't think you're talking about the same Target Disk we are talking about.

Target Disk is a feature which allows you to start up a Mac as though it was an external Firewire drive. It really is amazingly useful. Hopefully Apple will figure out a way to implement this over USB since Firewire is being phased out. The new MacBooks don't have a Firewire port and don't offer Target Disk mode. It's one of the reasons I made sure to get a Mac Mini now while they're still packing a Firewire port.

I can't say I've noticed Macs failing to enter Target Disk mode 6% of the time or failing to transfer 6% of data in this mode, so I am curious, exactly what are you talking about?



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nightsurge on 31 March 2009
ssj12 said:
CaptainDJ said:
XP > Vista
MAC > Microsoft

All my Bro did was dual booted his MAC with XP, and now I want one for myself! :O

 

Windows 7 = XP > Vista

And

Linux distros > Mac > Windows

 

For the general audience, hell no.  Linux will never work for the general public until they figure out a new method instead of requiring most software to be installed by command line.  That and networking them are just not very easy to do if you have no linux knowledge (ie. the general public).

Having work experience with both Macs and PCs, the Macs are 10x more annoying to work with.  The hardware is all proprietary and difficult to upgrade, when software fails it is 10x more difficult to find the problem and resolve it, OS X is basically on SP5 (if it went via Windows terms) and yet Apple charges $100 per service pack update.  I can go on and on about how much of a PITA working with Macs is.

 



Jordahn on 31 March 2009

Microsoft can spend their funds anyway they want to advertise. But they'd be better off using those funds to fix their software problems so Apple ads will have nothing to point out. Those Apple ads wouldn't have a leg to stand on if it weren't true.



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